Dining Collection (#23)

Earthquake victims in a hospital, Greece
Earthquake victims and staff in the dining room of a hospital, Greece. Many earthquakes occurred in the Ionian area in August 1953, the worst one destroying many buildings in Kefalonia and Zakynthos

Tea Time in Dining Hall of National Control Canteen, WW1
Female munitions workers in the dining hall of the National Control Canteen, run by voluntary lady workers to provide cheap, nutritious meals for employees. Date: 1916

Wooden Platters and Horn Mugs
Wooden platters and horn mugs at the Henry Whitfield State Historical Museum in Connecticut dating from 1637 Date: 1637

French officers in an underground shelter, WW1
French officers dining in an elaborately constructed underground shelter on the Western Front, somewhere in Northern France in the winter of 1915/16

The Lotus Club - London Supper Club - Singer performing
The supper room of the Lotus Club in London the club members and guests are enjoying a fine dinner while listening to a special guest singer (right)

Grand Hotel d Europe, St Petersburg, Russia
View inside the dining room of the Grand Hotel d Europe, St Petersburg, Russia

Suffragette Arson St. Leonards. A fireman examines damage to the dining room of Leveleigh in St. Leonards, Sussex, the object of an arson attack, by militant suffragettes, 15th April, 1913. Date: 1913

Society dinner party in wartime, WW1
Illustration to accompany the Letters of Eve gossip column in The Tatler, showing a society dinner party, with guests wrapped in furs against the cold

Billets - Cromwell Gardens - Dining area with decorated ceil
Billets - Cromwell Gardens. Dining area in very large room with decorated ceiling. 21017 Private P. J. Hill, D Company, 20Th Battalion, The County Of London Regiment

Leicester Children at Poor Childrens Summer Homes, Mabletho
Children from Leicester in the dining room of the Poor Childrens Summer Homes, Mablethorpe. Date: 1914

Waitress in a gentlemens club by Fish, WW1
Uncle Fred, one of the characters in The Tatler magazine s, Letters of Eve, drawn by Annie Fish is pictured enjoying having his lunch at his club

Royal Artillery soldiers eating dinner, WW1
Four soldiers of the Royal Artillery enjoy some lunch during the First World War. Date: c.1916

Cubs in refectory, Baden Powell House, London
Cubs queueing for food in the refectory of Baden Powell House, Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Date: circa 1960s

Cubs and Scouts in refectory, Baden Powell House, London
Cubs and Scouts in the refectory of Baden Powell House, Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Date: circa 1960s

Cub Scouts in refectory, Baden Powell House, London
Cub Scouts in the refectory of Baden Powell House, Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Date: circa 1960s

Dining room staff, Baden Powell House, London
Dining room staff preparing for visitors at Baden Powell House, Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Date: circa 1960s

Women and girls in refectory, Baden Powell House, London
Women and girls in the refectory of Baden Powell House, Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Date: circa 1960s

Dining room of Baden Powell House, London
People eating and serving in the dining room of Baden Powell House, Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Date: circa 1960s

An interior view of the Parisian nightspot LaJunie
An interior view interior of LaJunie restaurant / cabaret, Montmartre, Paris Date: 1920s

Dining room with two waiters, China. Date: circa 1890

The Garden Grill at the May Fair Hotel
The Garden Grill Room restaurant at the newly opened May Fair Hotel in Stratton Street, Mayfair, London, which had the novel illusion that, no matter what the time of day

Subaltern stunts by H. L. Oakley
A double page spread of silhouette vignettes by the famous silhouette artist, Captain Harry Lawrence Oakley, featuring scenes during a WW1 subaltern officers ten days leave in England

British officers dining in trench, Western Front, WW1
British officers dining in a reserve trench on the Western Front before moving up the line during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Maiden voyage of the Vaterland
The maiden voyage of what was at the time the biggest ship in the world: the German Hamburg-Amerika cruise liner, Vaterland

NCH Home, Birmingham, Warwickshire
Tiny tots dining at the National Childrens Homes Watson Home at Birmingham. Date: Circa 1940

The Albergo Popolare in Milan
Milans Albergo Popolare, opened in 1901, was modelled on Londons Rowton Houses and provided cheap accommodation for working men

Meal-time at St Saviours Home for Girls, Harrow
Girls in the dining-room at the Home for Girls in Harrow, Middlesex. The home, originally established by the Waifs and Strays Society in 1883

Silhouette of diners and waiters at a table. Date: 20th century

The restaurant of the May Fair Hotel
The restaurant of the newly-opened May Fair hotel in Stratton Street, Mayfair, London showing people seated at tables and others on the dancefloor

The Hope Club for women, 1904
A convivial scene in the dining-room of the Hope Club for women members only. Situated in Devonshire Terrace, it catered to ladies in business and provided a writing-room

View of the courtyard of the Cavendish Hotel, 81-83 Jermyn Street, London Date: C. 1910

The dining room of the Cavendish Hotel, 81-83 Jermyn Street Date: C. 1910

Staff photo outside Star Dining Rooms

Two diners pull a wishbone rather too energetically much to the amazement (or annoyance) of their waitress. Chicken, plates

Miniature Golf at the Kit-Cat
An attractive addition to the pleasures of dining at the Kit-Cat Restaurant in Haymarket, central London; an entertaining nine-hole golf course in miniature, laid out in the Bray Room

Tatler front cover, Entertaining issue, 1964
Front cover of The Tatler magazine showing a girl acting hostess, representing Tatlers devotion to autumn entertaining in this particular issue

Pastime With Good Company
This picture shows a Christmas scene at Henry VIIIs table as the boars head is carried in and The Kings Ballad (Pastime With Good Company) is sung. The song was composed by Henry VIII himself

Royal Wedding 1904 -- Albany and Teck wedding meal
Wedding breakfast and luncheon table set out in the state dining room at Windsor Castle, for the wedding of Princess Alice of Albany

Romania - Lacu Sarat - Restaurant Untaru
Lacu Sarat (Salt Lake), Baila, Romania - Restaurant Untaru Date: 1903

Dinner party disrupted
A woman examines the eye of a gentleman, trying to see if he has something stuck in it. Date: 1885

Tolstoy & Family
TOLSTOY dining with his family at Jasnaia Poliana. It doesn t look a very merry gathering, but perhaps things will liven up when they ve had a little more to drink. Date: circa 1900

Rochefort Returns
HENRI ROCHEFORT French radical journalist and politician, dining with supporters at Calais station on his return from exile in England. Date: 1830 - 1913

Alexis Piron - 2
ALEXIS PIRON French writer, dining with two friends Colle and Gallet on either side of him. Date: 1689 - 1773

Advertisement for Ross Foods -- family of three at the table (modelled by D Groves, Andrew Downie and M Baldock). 1959

South Manchurian Railway - Interior of the Dining Car. Date: circa 1905

Hall Staircase - Christ Church College, Oxford
Dining Hall Staircase - Christ Church College, Oxford Date: circa 1910s

Dining Room at the Chateau de Josselin, France
Impressive and ornate Dining Room at the Chateau de Josselin, Josselin, Brittany, France. The fireplace bears the name of Alain de Rohan (1844-1914) who extensively re-modelled the room in the 1880s

Girl ensuring her boy has enough to eat
(translation) That what meekly: soup - a pie, bread to milk, the woman - to the man! A Girl ensuring her boy has enough to eat... Date: 1909

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